Rotating Container Fluid Surface for Additive Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cryogenic additives used in canning processes can damage container walls due to their pH, temperature, and abrasive qualities, leading to undesirable flavor and structural integrity issues in beverages and other fluids.
Innovation Solution
Rotating the container filled with a fluid product to create a concave fluid surface, which contains the cryogenic additive and prevents it from interacting with the inner wall, thereby minimizing damage and maintaining the structural integrity of the container.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cryogenic additive is added directly to the liquid beverage during filling, then the container is pressurized and oxygen is displaced, but the additive causes damage to the container walls due to pH, temperature, and abrasive qualities
Solution Approach 1:
The liquid product serves as an intermediary barrier between the cryogenic additive and the container inner wall. By introducing the additive through the liquid product rather than directly onto the wall, the liquid absorbs the harmful effects (extreme temperature, pH, abrasiveness) and prevents direct contact with the container surface, thus protecting structural integrity while still achieving pressurization and oxygen displacement.
Solution Approach 2:
The container interior space is segmented into two distinct zones: a liquid product layer at the bottom and a cryogenic additive layer on top. This spatial segmentation prevents direct interaction between the harmful additive and the container wall, while the liquid product acts as a protective buffer zone that isolates the wall from damaging effects.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the container is rotated to create a concave fluid surface, then the cryogenic additive is contained and prevented from interacting with the inner wall, but additional mechanical action is required
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from a static liquid surface to a dynamic concave surface by rotating the container. This dynamic configuration allows the liquid product to form a parabolic shape that naturally contains the cryogenic additive at the center low point, preventing contact with the walls without requiring additional containment structures or complex mechanical barriers.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The method effectively prevents damaging interactions between the cryogenic additive and the container wall, reducing contamination and structural degradation, ensuring the quality and safety of the beverage and the container during storage and transport.
Implementation Method 1
applying a force on the vessel the force being configured to create a change in shape of a surface of the liquid product
Implementation Method 2
The cryogenic additive changes state to a gas for the primary purposes of pressurizing the container and displacing the oxygen
Implementation Method 3
Once the lid is sealed in place, the additive continues to boil or sublimate to a gas
Data Source
AI summary
The present specification discloses a method of protecting an inner wall surface of a vessel from damaging interaction with an additive added to the vessel, where the method includes providing the vessel at least part way filled with a liquid product; applying a force on the vessel the force being configured to create a change in shape of a surface of the liquid product; and providing sufficient containment of the additive by the change in shape of the surface of the liquid product to substantially prevent damaging interaction between the inner wall surface of the vessel and the additive for at least an additive reaction time period at the end of which the additive is rendered substantially incapable of producing damaging interaction to the inner wall surface of the vessel.